WEBVTT 00:00.170 --> 00:05.760 Pay them in this video we're going to look at something called a gradient mesh wall that allows us to 00:05.760 --> 00:11.580 do is do great things that don't kind of follow the straight line like a linear in or around radio gradient 00:11.580 --> 00:15.990 we're going to do things like this where it kind of wraps around in these different consistencies and 00:15.990 --> 00:19.310 things going on even this kind of like we blurry thing at the top here. 00:19.350 --> 00:23.370 Plus we're going to add this film grain has nothing to do with anything other than I try to make it 00:23.370 --> 00:25.750 look a little nicer by adding film grain. 00:25.810 --> 00:26.160 Right. 00:26.190 --> 00:29.140 Let's go and do that now in Adobe Illustrator. 00:29.340 --> 00:36.780 OK first up open up gradient mesh III from the exercise files and we look at the easy ways and the hardware. 00:36.930 --> 00:41.580 So I'm going to give them a rectangle to just draw a rectangle out here doing it with simple shapes 00:41.580 --> 00:46.170 like this ellipses and rectangles super easy great mission is awesome. 00:46.170 --> 00:49.660 What we're going to do is there's two ways of adding a mesh. 00:49.700 --> 00:55.800 OK you can go to object and go down to create gradient Mitsch decide how many rows and columns. 00:55.800 --> 01:02.160 I guess the more rows and columns you have the greater control you have but the harder it is to make 01:02.160 --> 01:04.350 it look like smooth. 01:04.500 --> 01:06.760 OK so more detail but less smooth. 01:06.930 --> 01:12.240 So yeah let's go with that and we've got our grading mesh and the other way to do it is I'm going to 01:12.240 --> 01:18.330 grab the rectangle tool do something relatively similar and there's a way of doing it using the tool 01:18.330 --> 01:20.230 over here is a specific gradient Mish too. 01:20.250 --> 01:22.920 And this way you can just kind of click and specific parts. 01:22.920 --> 01:28.030 So to you what you want to do once you've got your gradient mesh though the technique is the same. 01:28.110 --> 01:29.660 You want to work with your white area. 01:29.700 --> 01:34.550 And let's say we're going to select all of these guys are on the outside I'm looking these guys are 01:34.560 --> 01:37.060 going to hold shift and grab the ones at the bottom as well. 01:37.060 --> 01:42.770 So just got all these top anchor points slick and the bottom ones are going to open up my properties 01:42.810 --> 01:46.980 and I'm going to get a fill in I'm going to go to my swatches and if you're using my file I've got some 01:46.980 --> 01:52.860 pre-made ones for us and I'm going to click on you guys and you can see what it does it kind of adds 01:52.980 --> 01:53.770 gradients now. 01:53.850 --> 01:58.380 Nothing very exciting yet has happened right because like I could have done that with just a regular 01:58.380 --> 02:04.230 grading on a grip all these guys in the middle here and make them great game and still you could have 02:04.230 --> 02:09.480 done this where it gets different is if I click on one of these guys maybe that one and that one I'm 02:09.480 --> 02:11.850 going to go into here and say I want you to be pink. 02:11.850 --> 02:13.320 That's where it gets a bit different right. 02:13.470 --> 02:20.010 You can actually map out gradients or in my case make them look terrible and let's have a look at what 02:20.010 --> 02:20.700 else you can do. 02:20.700 --> 02:23.800 You can move these guys this guy I can move and build him down this corner. 02:23.820 --> 02:27.240 You can see it doesn't really kind of interesting airbrush style fix. 02:27.240 --> 02:28.170 OK. 02:28.170 --> 02:29.860 And you can move him around. 02:29.910 --> 02:31.200 All these guys have handles. 02:31.200 --> 02:32.750 You can see I can adjust this guy. 02:32.760 --> 02:33.660 He doesn't have a color. 02:33.700 --> 02:41.100 It's going McCullough and it give him like K and you can start kind of bending these things around and 02:41.100 --> 02:43.140 you start distorting. 02:43.140 --> 02:46.980 Now that's not a very good example because I'm just randomly doing a shape but it gives you kind of 02:47.520 --> 02:51.290 I guess a look at how easy it is when the shape is simple. 02:51.360 --> 02:56.500 Let's look at doing something with now while k now the same thing right. 02:56.490 --> 02:58.770 What I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate. 02:58.870 --> 03:01.230 You're going to go up there exciting as you are. 03:01.350 --> 03:06.560 Shift brings up my iPod to holding down the key on a PC. 03:06.650 --> 03:08.760 You know Mike going to have another option. 03:09.110 --> 03:09.880 KING It isn't. 03:09.930 --> 03:14.030 Now I like the body of this while and trying to gradient mesh it's painful. 03:14.130 --> 03:17.730 Gay just happens when really complex shapes like this. 03:17.730 --> 03:23.820 Now I say that just because it's just honest I try and use the to like I'm going to click the code and 03:23.820 --> 03:24.740 it's kind of fallen. 03:24.820 --> 03:29.590 It's kind of put in this line and went around the eye which is not really what I wanted but it's OK. 03:29.730 --> 03:32.370 And and it's kind of done some stuff around here. 03:32.390 --> 03:36.940 So up here it's gone to really weed can't just you just what happens with a complex shape. 03:36.960 --> 03:42.420 I can say I want a couple of extra points follow along here because this is kind of what I want to do. 03:42.440 --> 03:45.690 I want to make a kind of gradient that follows this line. 03:45.690 --> 03:48.520 The problem with it though is yeah all that kind of complexity. 03:48.540 --> 03:53.490 I'm going to hold shift and grab you because every time you do one and they cross over it creates another 03:53.490 --> 03:58.480 joining path and it gets a little confusing about we actually going. 03:58.710 --> 04:01.700 I'm holding Shift with my direct selection tool clicking on things. 04:01.740 --> 04:03.960 Now I'm going to go to say that Clavier. 04:04.160 --> 04:05.580 It's kind of working. 04:05.700 --> 04:09.000 And the more you add the harder it becomes. 04:09.000 --> 04:13.620 So what I tend to do you can you can mess around with that it's fine use a great tool. 04:13.620 --> 04:17.810 So what I do is I'm going to duplicate this first up board. 04:17.970 --> 04:24.560 So shift would holding down the key on a PC and can make to make a duplicate. 04:24.750 --> 04:29.280 And what I want to do is instead of trying to turn this into a mission was going to use a simple shape 04:29.360 --> 04:34.980 with these Ellipse just because it has like so I guess it's quite elliptical shape. 04:35.040 --> 04:38.490 Use that or rectangle something super simple that matches what you're doing. 04:38.490 --> 04:40.070 Make sure it covers the whole thing. 04:40.170 --> 04:44.640 And actually what I'll do is idyllic that is I want to on its own layer because I want to use this guy 04:44.640 --> 04:45.190 on top. 04:45.330 --> 04:47.120 OK so this is going to be my way. 04:47.510 --> 04:50.610 I'm going to have another layer but I want just underneath it. 04:51.770 --> 04:54.020 And you're going to be migrated. 04:55.080 --> 04:57.470 And our little trick is. 04:57.570 --> 05:00.020 And let's actually grab my lips too. 05:00.070 --> 05:02.920 On the gradient layer and a draw that big. 05:03.300 --> 05:04.700 So he's just underneath. 05:04.700 --> 05:07.240 Now what I'd like to do is be able to see through this way. 05:07.350 --> 05:13.120 Now I could go to my outline mode K which is command y on a Mac all control y on a PC. 05:13.230 --> 05:15.720 But actually what I want to do is there's a little trick with the whale. 05:15.750 --> 05:21.240 You get a lock on so it doesn't move but also command and click and k just turns into outlines you can 05:21.240 --> 05:23.360 turn it off by command clicking it as well. 05:23.370 --> 05:27.480 So I'm working on the gradient laugh and I can kind of see the outlines at least. 05:27.510 --> 05:28.730 Now why do I do this. 05:28.770 --> 05:34.260 Because when I start using the gradient to describe him him when I say gradiently I mean grating to 05:34.740 --> 05:40.250 is when I start clicking and say Here it's more consistent lines appear. 05:40.490 --> 05:45.720 OK so let's say I've got this one and I can grab my direct selection too and I can start bending this 05:47.130 --> 05:53.250 around to kind of fit the forms in the shapes of what I need and what I might do is Beenham around my 05:53.250 --> 05:55.040 ellipses may be a bit big for what I need. 05:55.050 --> 05:57.820 But you're getting the idea right. 05:58.410 --> 05:59.800 And if you need more points. 05:59.840 --> 06:00.250 OK. 06:00.270 --> 06:04.280 Slowly but surely remember the least amount of points becomes easy. 06:04.280 --> 06:07.500 I'm going to follow that line along another one why error. 06:07.710 --> 06:14.120 And I'm going to stop bending this around came. 06:14.290 --> 06:15.580 I don't even know what I'm doing. 06:15.580 --> 06:19.990 I'm kind of just following some curves I'm going to have I'm going to cross my fingers as those things 06:19.990 --> 06:21.830 get to look half decent when I'm finished. 06:21.930 --> 06:25.100 Am I going to add another one there a y arrow. 06:25.130 --> 06:31.260 Which is the A key and this guy here had to be made ok to kind of make this thing consistent. 06:31.270 --> 06:39.510 But what you can do is you can grab him and drag him up there make sure these guys don't overlap. 06:39.590 --> 06:42.710 I could spin you just I should I just make it look really cool. 06:44.630 --> 06:46.110 I'm kind of happy with what we're doing. 06:47.640 --> 06:49.750 This guy here what is he doing. 06:49.780 --> 06:50.510 He's got some way. 06:50.530 --> 06:51.500 You can drag him off. 06:51.500 --> 06:57.060 OK so he doesn't kind of influences it much but he's going to be up here. 06:57.730 --> 07:02.320 You are going to come up I think it's going to come out here. 07:02.740 --> 07:04.030 You know like get on with it. 07:05.260 --> 07:08.880 I'm getting on with it I promise. 07:08.890 --> 07:09.430 All right. 07:09.520 --> 07:12.110 So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to click on. 07:12.210 --> 07:17.140 Maybe that's got me be holding Shift grabbed this guys. 07:17.140 --> 07:17.560 Well. 07:17.650 --> 07:19.200 And this guy's got three of them selected. 07:19.200 --> 07:21.920 I'm going to go to my properties panel and get my fill. 07:22.150 --> 07:24.870 And I'm going to use some of that gradient. 07:25.060 --> 07:25.510 OK. 07:25.540 --> 07:28.380 And and that's the way to kind of do a great mission. 07:28.480 --> 07:32.980 Yes I could have just done with a Radie just a maybe a linear gradient. 07:32.980 --> 07:37.950 Let's go further K and couldn't have done that with a radio. 07:38.160 --> 07:40.010 All the NEA maybe could. 07:40.060 --> 07:46.090 So when it gets down to things like this this guy force him in here when it starts doing some cool kind 07:46.090 --> 07:49.830 of pushing around all of these things 07:53.050 --> 07:57.880 so it's that kind of really kind of tricky gradient and that you can see it's kind of really sharp Over 07:57.880 --> 08:02.560 here it's that's getting quite Pheri of here just because the distances between these anchor points 08:02.560 --> 08:04.700 are quite quite big. 08:04.990 --> 08:12.560 So go through all what do we do now is you spin a bit longer doing it than I did man bed. 08:12.670 --> 08:17.380 So I'm going to grab this guy and we're going to go to a large panel and hold the key to turn that back 08:17.380 --> 08:18.000 on. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.040 And what we want to do is they need to be on the same layer now because we want to turn them into a 08:21.040 --> 08:22.030 cupping mask. 08:22.390 --> 08:25.040 And do they need to be on the same lap and that's a good point. 08:25.060 --> 08:26.880 So it's only the whales in front. 08:26.890 --> 08:32.250 I'm pretty sure I might be able to shift click this guy and hit command 7 who did work. 08:32.440 --> 08:35.640 OK so c'mon 7 is the shortcut for clipping mask. 08:35.800 --> 08:42.400 If you're at the long way there's make clubbing masks not very long as a button or if you're an older 08:42.400 --> 08:46.560 version of Illustrator object clipping mask make. 08:46.630 --> 08:48.950 Either way that's what I'm trying to do right. 08:48.970 --> 08:55.450 It's easier to do this gradient mesh inside a simple circle than it is to try and do on top of the actual 08:55.450 --> 08:56.100 shape. 08:56.110 --> 08:56.920 How good is this. 08:56.920 --> 08:59.600 This is pretty bad. 08:59.800 --> 09:01.830 The color seem like a good idea. 09:02.290 --> 09:07.510 I'm caught out live live and direct because what me. 09:07.940 --> 09:12.200 Now one more thing we might do before we go is often people want to do a kind of a great mesh that looks 09:12.200 --> 09:16.580 like kind of like they want to do they think they need a gradient mesh when they don't. 09:16.650 --> 09:19.220 Let me show you another way that I often do things. 09:19.340 --> 09:26.930 Ok so I'm going to grab my Pinto and draw it in the cards off. 09:27.010 --> 09:27.990 On you. 09:28.250 --> 09:32.030 Because what I want to do is I want to create kind of a shape. 09:32.070 --> 09:32.380 Pia 09:35.500 --> 09:39.280 kind of has this kind of 09:42.820 --> 09:45.320 get at my head let's make it a reality. 09:45.370 --> 09:49.040 So you want to kind of like a jelly button kind of thing. 09:49.140 --> 09:54.630 So instead of trying to do that with a gradient map and it's easier often just to give it the right 09:54.630 --> 09:55.090 color. 09:55.140 --> 10:02.710 So I just clicked on hand I'm going to say I want you to be white and widely and then just use a blur. 10:02.910 --> 10:09.300 OK so I'm going to go effect I'm going to go to town to blur and use simply turn cheap trick to preview 10:09.300 --> 10:11.620 on and you can kind of see what it's going to do. 10:11.670 --> 10:15.610 Same kind of thing that we maybe would have been able to do down there. 10:15.790 --> 10:24.210 OK but given the Blairites Ingelow the Pasotti little birds I wanted this kind of yeah that kind of 10:24.210 --> 10:24.950 effect. 10:25.140 --> 10:27.960 I'm going to do one last little shape. 10:28.160 --> 10:31.340 What I'll do is duplicate him and you my friend. 10:31.380 --> 10:38.610 I'm going to trim off with a Circo to get a kind of a bit of a life thing going ship to outline mode 10:39.310 --> 10:47.070 so I can grab you like both of them and I'm going to go out to IMO because it's kind of confusing. 10:47.070 --> 10:52.340 I'm going to use my shape builder to shift him and I'm going to delete these gates. 10:52.340 --> 10:57.420 So I was wondering this kind of chunk and what it might do is turn down the blur of this so we've got 10:57.420 --> 10:59.020 something it's got an effect applied. 10:59.040 --> 11:03.320 You'd have to go to the either the appearance panel which is under a window or my case I can see here 11:03.850 --> 11:05.690 and I'm going to turn this way down. 11:09.940 --> 11:16.760 Now but there's kind of like Duell effect here where the top part is there are different blue levels. 11:17.020 --> 11:18.240 You get what I mean. 11:18.250 --> 11:24.330 I mean I was hoping that was going to look better but hopefully you understand and take Niek grainy 11:24.380 --> 11:30.790 it meshes can be tricky sometimes it is easier just to make things like that and just blow them out. 11:30.790 --> 11:36.700 One last thing before we go is often gradients especially great meshes and stuff in Illustrator it has 11:36.700 --> 11:42.420 a really kind of like vict a look that maybe isn't pop as popular at the moment cooler. 11:42.420 --> 11:48.190 The trick is you can select all of the stuff and add a cool effect in here under effect. 11:48.250 --> 11:48.580 Cool. 11:48.580 --> 11:55.740 I'm trying to redeem myself or make it look somewhat better effect and go to artistic. 11:55.750 --> 12:00.330 And it's not under to stick under texture. 12:00.340 --> 12:07.060 Go to grain and I had kind of one part of it selected to the part and I have it. 12:07.150 --> 12:07.990 I would also like to add 12:11.760 --> 12:15.380 it's actually just picked whatever the top piece was and you kind of see what it's doing right. 12:15.390 --> 12:16.050 Is indeed a little bit. 12:16.050 --> 12:19.130 It's adding this kind of like film grain takes just stuff to it. 12:19.130 --> 12:24.180 You can decide on you know the intensity and texture and it doesn't mean way with the edges though. 12:24.180 --> 12:28.440 I'll show you how to get around that but it only pick one pace even though it has done it to all of 12:28.440 --> 12:28.680 them. 12:28.680 --> 12:29.430 Can you see. 12:29.760 --> 12:35.160 And I find and forget the edges but it kind of adds a nicer effect to these guys. 12:35.160 --> 12:43.330 So to get around that Pixley's pixelation of the ages I'm going to undo that and it's easier to do this. 12:43.350 --> 12:49.240 Grab a rectangle tool roll this over the top and you apply it to this basically into a lab mode. 12:49.440 --> 12:53.160 So how do you apply the exact same one apply grain. 12:53.220 --> 12:56.260 Is this going to be here for you if you haven't done before. 12:56.280 --> 12:58.250 Like repeat the thing I just did. 12:58.470 --> 13:04.410 So apply it to this and then on to here and opacity so to multiply does the same kind of effect add 13:04.410 --> 13:09.700 something to the background as well which maybe not what you want but it definitely fixes up these images. 13:09.750 --> 13:12.010 And what I might do is adjust that a bit more. 13:12.200 --> 13:18.630 And my parents panel here click on grain and contrast I'm going to go up maybe intensity. 13:18.630 --> 13:23.550 Let's go look again the better how I would deem myself. 13:23.550 --> 13:24.630 Probably not. 13:24.630 --> 13:28.370 But you my creative friend I got to make it look did better than me. 13:28.380 --> 13:29.620 You've got the techniques. 13:29.640 --> 13:30.060 All right. 13:30.060 --> 13:32.220 That is going to be it's. 13:32.400 --> 13:35.560 I'll see you in the very next video where I will do something that looks nicer. 13:35.640 --> 13:36.090 I promise.